Notes on Contributors

Taiwo Afuape. Being a Nigerian British-born working-class woman is central to Taiwo's work as a clinical team lead and family therapy lead in Newham Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in ELFT. Taiwo is a clinical psychologist and systemic family therapist with training in narrative therapy and more than twenty years post-qualification experience. Previously Taiwo has set up community psychology services for transitional populations—women escaping domestic violence, homeless people, people misusing substances, travelling communities of Roma and Irish heritage, and refugee people; has worked in a Human Rights charity for survivors of torture; managed an adult mental health systemic service in Newham and was principal systemic family therapist in an adult psychology and psychotherapy service in Kensington, offering training in diploma level systemic psychotherapy as well as family and couple therapy for adults with mental health problems and also worked for the Tavistock and Portman Foundation Trust, in Camden CAMHS as a systemic family therapist and lead clinical psychologist. Taiwo has written a number of books and articles on the topic of systemic and liberation psychology approaches to addressing the link between trauma and oppression. Email:

Gordon Alderson is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He is a member of The Bowlby Centre and is a training supervisor. He works in private practice and previously for the NHS. He has worked as a group therapist within the NHS and with refugees and asylum seekers in conjunction with the Refugee Therapy Centre. Email:

Aysha Begum is a principal clinical psychologist and systemic therapist working in the National Health Service with children/young people, parents/couples, and families. She brings twenty years' clinical, teaching, and academic experience to her current role as psychology lead in a large inner-city Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMH